About
The character 骰 (tóu) is a noun meaning "die" or "dice", the small cubic gaming pieces marked with dots. It is a phono-semantic compound: the left radical 骨 (gǔ, "bone") indicates the material historically used to make dice, while the right component 殳 (shū) originally provided the phonetic hint, though the modern pronunciation has shifted to "tóu". This character is primarily used in the compound 骰子 (tóuzi), keeping its meaning firmly within the context of games and gambling without developing abstract or broader senses.